
This version of jcabc2ps is 2.1,  the  first  version  released  with
support  for  extended  repeat notation and arbitrary key signatures.
This was foisted on the world mostly because I needed these  features
for  music  that I'm working with, and nobody else seemed to be doing
much with it.

Please read the Changes file to see what has changed since  the  last
release that you had.

As with the last few releases by Michael Methfessel,  the  code  here
uses  a  number  of ANSI C features, such as function prototypes with
the args listed, and the // comment delimiter. It probably won't work
very  well with older C compilers.  It has been compiled on linux and
FreeBSD machines so far.

Comments on bugs, features, and so on should be sent to:
   John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>, 

To build jcabc2ps from the tar.gz kit:

   mkdir jcabc2ps
   cd jcabc2ps
   zcat < ../jcabc2ps.tar.gz | tar xf -
   make

This will first make jcabc2ps, and then will build ps files from  all
the abc files in the abc/ directory. There will also be a lot of .out
files that contain the output from each jcabc2ps command. So far, the
only  way  to  verify  the  output  is  to examine the ps files via a
PostScript viewer. Maybe I'll work on including some regression tests
that  do  the  checking automatically, if I ever learn how to do that
with PostScript.

Here's a full PostScript manual:
  http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

